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LITTLE COMPTON -- An 18-year-old carpenter won a million-dollar lottery prize Christmas morning after his mother bought him a $20 scratch ticket in Westport, Mass.......
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6:14 PM Fri, Dec 26, 2008 | Permalink |
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EAST GREENWICH -- An off-duty Providence police officer today helped local police nab an machete-wielding bank robber shortly after he ran out of the......
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5:58 PM Fri, Dec 26, 2008 | Permalink |
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Rhode Island District Court calendars will be suspended Monday for the funeral of District Court Chief Judge Albert E. DeRobbio, who died Dec. 22.......
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5:41 PM Fri, Dec 26, 2008 | Permalink |
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The National Weather Service has issued a winter advisory for northern Rhode Island with sleet, freezing rain and snow starting after 11 p.m. For Providence......
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3:16 PM Fri, Dec 26, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Tom Mooney Journal staff writer PROVIDENCE, RI -- The state Ethics Commission this week has asked the state Supreme Court to overturn a Superior......
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2:38 PM Fri, Dec 26, 2008 | Permalink |
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CRANSTON -- The Cranston Fire Department is responding to a fire at the Cranston Wastewater Treatment plant on 140 Pettaconsett Ave., fire officials said. No......
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2:36 PM Fri, Dec 26, 2008 | Permalink |
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PROVIDENCE, RI -- A Boston man arrested this week in connection with a fatal shooting outside a Providence nightclub this month was arraigned today in......
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2:27 PM Fri, Dec 26, 2008 | Permalink |
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BOSTON -- As unseasonably warm temperatures are forecasted for the weekend, the Coast Guard is advising kayakers and canoeists to be cautious of sudden cold-water......
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1:41 PM Fri, Dec 26, 2008 | Permalink |
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Ramona Bass-Kolobe is organizing a Kwanzaa celebration for Sunday at St. Michael Church, in South Providence. Journal photo / Kris Craig Kwanzaa, the African-American holiday......
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1:20 PM Fri, Dec 26, 2008 | Permalink |
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TMZ.com is reporting, based on unnamed sources, that Patriots quarterback Tom Brady proposed to supermodel Gisele Bundchen while the two were aboard a private jet......
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1:16 PM Fri, Dec 26, 2008 | Permalink |
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By John Hill Journal staff writer A series of December house fires has left the Rhode Island Chapter of the Red Cross concerned that it......
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12:51 PM Fri, Dec 26, 2008 | Permalink |
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WARWICK, RI -- A Warwick woman accused of stabbing her boyfriend in the chest with a kitchen knife on Christmas Eve was arraigned this morning......
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12:16 PM Fri, Dec 26, 2008 | Permalink |
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BOSTON (AP) -- New federal rules will end the flow of people who travel to Massachusetts each year to claim some of the nation's most......
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12:07 PM Fri, Dec 26, 2008 | Permalink |
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BOURNE, Mass. (AP) -- Family members and neighbors have identified the two people who died in a Christmas Eve house fire in Bourne as a......
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12:02 PM Fri, Dec 26, 2008 | Permalink |
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Disney On Ice member Christine Isaksen of Norway helps Tristen Rivera of Johnston who celebrates his fifth birthday at the rink. Young skaters receive pointers......
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11:47 AM Fri, Dec 26, 2008 | Permalink |
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Journal photo / Steve Szydlowski WARWICK -- Things were a little quiet at Kohl's in the Rhode Island Mall this morning. Doors opened at 6......
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9:26 AM Fri, Dec 26, 2008 | Permalink |
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NORTH KINGSTOWN -- Route 4 northbound traffic should be able to access Route 403 and the Quonset Business Park as of this afternoon, the state......
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8:48 AM Fri, Dec 26, 2008 | Permalink |
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Hard to believe. But it was four years ago today that a tsunami triggered by a powerful earthquake beneath the Indian Ocean left more than......
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8:35 AM Fri, Dec 26, 2008 | Permalink |
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An early-morning fire at 96 Rolf Square, in Cranston, left 4 people homeless. Journal photo / Steve Szydlowski CRANSTON, R.I. -- A fire broke out......
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8:19 AM Fri, Dec 26, 2008 | Permalink |
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projo.com photo / Andrea Panciera One of Providence's busiest intersections was abnormally quiet at 7:15 a.m. this day after Christmas. But the pace should......
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7:46 AM Fri, Dec 26, 2008 | Permalink |
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Dinner with family marks many a Christmas Day. Today's centerpiece in The Providence Journal tells the story of a community dinner in Narragansett held for......
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7:28 AM Fri, Dec 26, 2008 | Permalink |
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PROVIDENCE -- The mayor's office is encouraging city residents to think green, even if that color has pretty much faded from their Christmas trees. City......
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6:59 AM Fri, Dec 26, 2008 | Permalink |
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PROVIDENCE, RI -- Today will be mostly sunny, with a high near 39, according to the National Weather Service. Rain should move in by tonight......
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4:00 PM Wed, Dec 24, 2008 | Permalink |
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With Christmas Eve approaching, projo.com's 7to7 breaking news blog is closing up shop early today. We'll officially end our posts at 4 p.m. Tomorrow, the......
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3:55 PM Wed, Dec 24, 2008 | Permalink |
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The night before Christmas. A phrase that carries such a pleasing sound. Many in Rhode Island will choose to attend some sort of religious service,......
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3:06 PM Wed, Dec 24, 2008 | Permalink |
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JAMESTOWN, R.I. -- Four motorists drove through the gates installed on the Clairborne Pell Bridge's E-ZPass lanes during the system's first week in operations, said......
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2:52 PM Wed, Dec 24, 2008 | Permalink |
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Customers waited in the rain this morning for the doors to open at the Captain's Catch fishmonger, in North Providence. Some make the wait a......
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2:12 PM Wed, Dec 24, 2008 | Permalink |
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PROVIDENCE -- Providence's Russian sub -- which sank last year and was raised again this summer with much travail -- is to become scrap metal,......
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1:32 PM Wed, Dec 24, 2008 | Permalink |
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Journal photo / Steve Szydlowski Holiday travelers were met with empty security lines at 10:30 this morning at T.F.Green airport in Warwick. But 30......
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12:33 PM Wed, Dec 24, 2008 | Permalink |
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Journal photo / Kathy Borchers Brothers Jacob, 6, and Jarrod Klang, 3, and their mother, Robin Klang of Seekonk, Mass., get greetings from Mickey......
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10:32 AM Wed, Dec 24, 2008 | Permalink |
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The Most Rev. Thomas J. Tobin, bishop of Providence, will celebrate the vigil Mass on Christmas Eve at 5 p.m. at the Cathedral of Saints......
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9:20 AM Wed, Dec 24, 2008 | Permalink |
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PROVIDENCE -- Forgot to mail that package? A holiday card? You may still make it, if you send it by Express Mail (overnight guaranteed!). Although......
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9:11 AM Wed, Dec 24, 2008 | Permalink |
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NORTH KINGSTOWN -- Route 4 northbound traffic will be able to access Route 403 and the Quonset Business Park starting Friday, the state Department of......
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8:57 AM Wed, Dec 24, 2008 | Permalink |
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WOONSOCKET (AP) -- Woonsocket's mayor could lay off police and firefighters to deal with an anticipated cut in state funding. Woonsocket Mayor Susan Menard said......
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8:48 AM Wed, Dec 24, 2008 | Permalink |
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PROVIDENCE -- Icy roads were blamed for multiple spinouts this morning on Route 295, the Rhode Island State Police said. Most of those accidents happened......
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8:17 AM Wed, Dec 24, 2008 | Permalink |
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A Boston man arrested yesterday in connection to a fatal shooting outside a Providence nightclub this month is due in in Somerville District Court today......
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7:02 AM Wed, Dec 24, 2008 | Permalink |
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On this day in 1968, the Apollo 8 astronauts, orbiting the moon, read passages from the Old Testament Book of Genesis during a Christmas Eve......
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7:01 AM Wed, Dec 24, 2008 | Permalink |
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The National Weather Service has forecast rain today, mainly after 8 a.m. with patchy fog, caused by warm air flowing over the snow, after 3......
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7:00 AM Wed, Dec 24, 2008 | Permalink |
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Today's front page features a story about 1,400 recently discovered letters from World War II service members at Bryant University. Download a copy of today's......
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9:37 PM Tue, Dec 23, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Alisha A. Pina Journal Staff Writer EAST PROVIDENCE -- It appears the city manager wasn't exaggerating when he testified last month that East......
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6:30 PM Tue, Dec 23, 2008 | Permalink |
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If you're one of those who isn't frantically shopping, wrapping or cooking tonight, you might consider attending one of two dramatically different holiday plays. At......
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6:28 PM Tue, Dec 23, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Philip Marcelo Journal staff writer PROVIDENCE -- The city and the unions were ordered by a Supreme Court judge today to begin negotiations this......
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6:15 PM Tue, Dec 23, 2008 | Permalink |
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Jaslene (cq) Nina, 1 1/2, isn't so sure about this man with the white beard, AKA Santa Claus, AKA Mike Vitagliano, who arrived by......
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5:50 PM Tue, Dec 23, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Greg Smith Journal staff writer PROVIDENCE -- A suspect has been captured in the shooting death in Providence of a gang member from Boston......
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4:59 PM Tue, Dec 23, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Tom Mooney Journal staff writer PROVIDENCE -- Civil libertarians are opposing a state Supreme Court proposal that would allow litigants in civil cases to......
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3:58 PM Tue, Dec 23, 2008 | Permalink |
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NEW YORK -- The New York Yankees have reeled in another prime free agent, reaching a preliminary agreement with first baseman Mark Teixeira for $180......
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3:43 PM Tue, Dec 23, 2008 | Permalink |
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By W. Zachary Malinowski Journal Staff Writer PROVIDENCE -- State and local police have broken up a mob-sanctioned gambling ring that handled more than $400,000......
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2:37 PM Tue, Dec 23, 2008 | Permalink |
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By John Hill Journal staff writer By Christmas morning, you may well be feeling like a dope for having spent all that time shoveling your......
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1:36 PM Tue, Dec 23, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Karen Lee Ziner Journal staff writer The state Board of Elections this morning voted unanimously to dismiss a six-year-old case that alleged the Rhode......
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1:02 PM Tue, Dec 23, 2008 | Permalink |
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Journal photo/ Kathy Borchers Santa (Mike Vitagliano), who pulled up on a customized Orange County Chopper motorcycle, arrives with a bag of gifts for......
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11:58 AM Tue, Dec 23, 2008 | Permalink |
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Journal photo / Sandor Bodo Bright Night performers march down the grand staircase in Providence City Hall today as they help festivities. Among them......
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10:49 AM Tue, Dec 23, 2008 | Permalink |
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Federal regulators have approved a measure preventing credit-card companies from unfairly using deceptive "bait-and-switch lending practices," but Sen. Jack Reed (D-RI), says it needs to......
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9:10 AM Tue, Dec 23, 2008 | Permalink |
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NEW BEDFORD, Mass. (AP) -- New Bedford fire officials say a homeowner using a blowtorch to melt ice on his back porch set the home......
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7:47 AM Tue, Dec 23, 2008 | Permalink |
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PROVIDENCE (AP) -- Governor Carcieri will mark the Jewish Festival of Lights in the State House on the third night of Hannukah. Carcieri will join......
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7:04 AM Tue, Dec 23, 2008 | Permalink |
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On this day in 1823, the poem "A Visit from St. Nicholas" by Clement C. Moore was first published, in the Troy (N.Y.) Sentinel. Read......
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7:01 AM Tue, Dec 23, 2008 | Permalink |
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It's bitterly cold this morning at 10 degrees with a nine-degree northwest winde and a wind chill factor of three degrees below zero. But it......
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6:54 AM Tue, Dec 23, 2008 | Permalink |
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Today's front page tells the story of four sailors rescued by the Coast Guard early Saturday off Block Island during a heavy storm. Download a......
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6:47 PM Mon, Dec 22, 2008 | Permalink |
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Hear the music of Trains Through The Countryside at AS220 in Providence at 9 tonight. "We draw our musical influence from artists such as explosions......
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6:26 PM Mon, Dec 22, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Lisa Vernon-Sparks Journal staff writer Jacob A. Freedman, 27, of East Greenwich, his father, Michael Freedman, 57, who lives in Brooklin, Maine, and two......
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6:20 PM Mon, Dec 22, 2008 | Permalink |
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By C. Eugene Emery Journal staff writer BARRINGTON - A $2.4 million proposal to build a large wind turbine in town seems poised to topple......
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5:42 PM Mon, Dec 22, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Cynthia Needham and Katherine Gregg Journal State House bureau PROVIDENCE -- Governor Carcieri today unveiled a federally-approved plan to give the state "unprecedented flexibility''......
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5:18 PM Mon, Dec 22, 2008 | Permalink |
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Journal photo / Frieda Squires More than 100 people attended a job fair at the Westerly Armory this morning held by Bradford Printing &......
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5:06 PM Mon, Dec 22, 2008 | Permalink |
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These restaurants have reported holiday hours for Christmas Day. Asterisk Restaurant, 599 Thames St., Newport, (401) 841-8833, asterisknewport.com, opens from 11 a.m. to 10 p.m.......
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4:46 PM Mon, Dec 22, 2008 | Permalink |
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PROVIDENCE -- Firefighters put out a second-floor fire in a two-story wood-frame residence this afternoon on Ruggles Street, according to James Taylor, chief of communications......
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4:44 PM Mon, Dec 22, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Barbara Polichetti Journal staff writer WARWICK -- While most of the state was busy getting back to business as usual today, Warwick schools remained......
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4:15 PM Mon, Dec 22, 2008 | Permalink |
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It's never felt more like hot cocoa time than in the past few days, but the state Health Department today said that four cocoa products......
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2:06 PM Mon, Dec 22, 2008 | Permalink |
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PROVIDENCE -- A Superior Court judge today issued an order preventing the city of Providence from changing the city's health care benefits administrator on Jan.......
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1:49 PM Mon, Dec 22, 2008 | Permalink |
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By John Hill Journal staff writer LINCOLN -- Investigators are working to determine the cause of a house fire yesterday morning in which a 7-year-old......
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1:14 PM Mon, Dec 22, 2008 | Permalink |
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Pockets of customers in southern Rhode Island saw cable outages throughout the weekend, due to commercial power failures caused by the snow storm, according to......
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12:12 PM Mon, Dec 22, 2008 | Permalink |
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PROVIDENCE -- Governor Carcieri will hold a news conference at 2 p.m. to help explain the 123-page "historic agreement" he announced Friday with federal officials......
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12:09 PM Mon, Dec 22, 2008 | Permalink |
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Projo.com visitor Nian shares this photo of an angel in the snow, on today's sunny morning, in the wake of back-to-back snow days. See......
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11:22 AM Mon, Dec 22, 2008 | Permalink |
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PROVIDENCE -- Jerome F. Williams, who has been director of the R.I. Department of Administration for the past six months, has resigned, Governor Carcieri announced......
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11:21 AM Mon, Dec 22, 2008 | Permalink |
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By W. Zachary Malinowski Journal staff writer PROVIDENCE -- Albert E. DeRobbio Sr., longtime chief District Court judge for Rhode Island, died this morning at......
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10:32 AM Mon, Dec 22, 2008 | Permalink |
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WASHINGTON (AP) -- Rhode Island is one of only two states to have lost population from 2007 to 2008. That's according to new population estimates......
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10:18 AM Mon, Dec 22, 2008 | Permalink |
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Gasoline prices in Rhode Island were unchanged last week after falling for 13 straight weeks, according to AAA Southern New England. The average price for......
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9:23 AM Mon, Dec 22, 2008 | Permalink |
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SPRINGFIELD, Mass. (AP) -- A police chief in western Massachusetts is scheduled to be arraigned today on an involuntary manslaughter charge in connection with the......
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9:14 AM Mon, Dec 22, 2008 | Permalink |
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PROVIDENCE -- If we're going to have a white Christmas, it looks like the snow blanketing the landscape will have to survive warmer temperatures and......
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8:49 AM Mon, Dec 22, 2008 | Permalink |
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PROVIDENCE -- A Providence man whom authorities say accompanied the alleged shooter of drug dealer Leonardo Manzano in August is due in court today for......
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8:40 AM Mon, Dec 22, 2008 | Permalink |
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PROVIDENCE (AP) -- Shop owners at the Providence Place Mall breathe a sigh of relief as the mall opens following a weather-related power failure. Crews......
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7:58 AM Mon, Dec 22, 2008 | Permalink |
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ACUSHNET, Mass. -- Police have identified the 44-year-old Acushnet man who was killed when a tree limb he was trying to cut down snapped and......
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7:23 AM Mon, Dec 22, 2008 | Permalink |
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On this day in 1989, Romanian President Nicolae Ceausescu, the last of Eastern Europe's hard-line Communist rulers, was toppled from power in a popular uprising.......
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7:09 AM Mon, Dec 22, 2008 | Permalink |
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The wild weekend weather is still affecting travel and school schedules this morning. Some schools have delayed their openings this morning. After snow, mixed precipitation......
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7:03 AM Mon, Dec 22, 2008 | Permalink |
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Today's front page features a photograph of Patriots' quarterback Matt Cassell throwing a pass in a snowy Gillette Stadium as the Patriots kept their playoff......
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7:00 AM Mon, Dec 22, 2008 | Permalink |
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PROVIDENCE -- We are waking up to a chilly morning and plenty of icy roads. So be careful. Today's high temperature will reach 22 degrees,......
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